Love the vast expanse of bidens! Also love the beautberries! I thought I had the Japanese cultivar, not C. americana (because the native apparently has fuzzy leaf undersides?) but your brighter, more clump-like berries look a lot closer to mine. I would love to have the native version afterall! (I got it from a friend who was moving, no tag.)

You already know how much I love those Bidens. Native plants do such a good job attracting pollinators and how exciting to see so many different visitors to the sea of yellow. I like to leave WW up for several day so more folks can join when they get the time. gail

This is such a magnificent display of yellow, Sweetbay; I would think motorists would slow down just to take in this sight. We had a few bidens in a planter at the MG Idea Garden this year, and I thought of you every time I saw them--ours were puny compared to yours, though:)

So that what those native coreopsis are called! Is bidens a local name? We have tons of them here blooming along the side of the road. I really love them! How wide/deep is your frog puddle? I should have mine finished by next weekend!!! Woo-hoo!!

It is such a treat to see a mass of one particular flower. Te butterflies certainly seem to be happy there are so many yellow flowers. The purple beautyberries are a perfect counter note to the Bidens.

The Bidens are really beautiful. They remind me of mustard flowers that bloom exuberantly here in spring, but close-up, bidens look much more refined than the simple mustard flowers. You have such lovely butterflies too, unlike any we see here. Thank you for the wonderful pictures, I enjoyed them very much.

I'm making my pond out of two 70 qt impact resistant muck tubs I bought at a seed n'feed. I'm pretty excited! If my son and I can finish the digging this week, I'm hoping to have it done by next Sunday and can write a Muck Tub Frog Pond post. I even found some water plants on clearance. Happiness and joy!!

I can totally understand why you always want more of them SB. Those are gorgeous swaths of yellow. The insect you didn't know the name of looks like a tachinid fly to me. I have several kinds here but when the Monarch cats showed up, it worried me since they parasitize (sp??) them. The combination of purple beauty berries with the bidens is really lovely.

Spectacular! Your post demonstrates that where there is room, a multitude is more powerful than the many and completely overwhelms the few! You are blessed to have a setting that so comfortably accommodates your vision.